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Event
Report:
UPA
Club Championships
It
happens every fall. The greatest competition in ultimate plays
out, this year again in Florida. Starting yesterday and continuing
through Sunday the top 60 teams on the continent are throwin'
down in Sarasota.
Beginning with a round-robin format through the first two days,
the results at the end of day one cleave the teams evenly in
two, with the top half vying to win advantageous quarterfinal
match-ups. The bottom eight teams fight for first place in the
lower pool, and the right to a last- chance game this afternoon
against the lowest team in the upper pool. At stake is the last
berth into the playoffs, and a guaranteed top-eight finish at
the hardest tournament to win in the world.
Open
Four pools of four begin day 1, and top-seeded Jam from San
Francisco, Ring of Fire from Raleigh, and two-time defending-champs
Furious George of Vancouver held their spots. Sockeye of Seattle
was the final top seed, but they were run through by New Jersey's
Pike to finish in a three-way tie with Atlanta's Chain Lightning.
With only two teams staying in the top of the draw, the point
spread gave the edge to Pike and Sockeye, sending Chain Lightning
to battle through the back door. Johnny Bravo from Boulder,
Boston's DoG, and the Santa Barbara Condors also stayed in the
top tier.
Womens
The status quo held on day one in the Womens division. Riot
from Seattle, defending-champs San Francisco Fury, Lady Godiva
from Boston, and Vancouver's Prime rolled though with nary a
scare. Atlanta Ozone, Rare Air of Boulder, Schwa from Portland,
OR, and Raleigh's Backhoe rounded out the top teams.
Mixed
This division is difficult to rank, as indicated by the movement
up and down the seeding. With the two teams which dominated
the event for the past years not in attendance, the Mixed Championship
title is wide open.
UPA-veteran Shazam from Seattle was knocked out of top spot
by 6 Trained Monkeys of Boston. B+ of Washington slid from top
spot in their pool with a loss to Denver's Bad Larry. A three-way
tie in this pool, including Chad Larson Experience from Ames,
IA, saw Bad Larry taking first, followed by B+, with CLE pushed
to the lower bracket. Brass Monkey from the Bay Area upset Baton
Rouge's Holes & Poles for top billing in another pool. Fort
Collins' Drive Thru Liquor grabbed top seed over Red Fish Blue
Fish from San Francisco in the final pool.
Masters
Owing to a different division size and format there are less
dramatic announcements after the first day. In one pool OLD
SAG of Philadelphia went through undefeated after knocking off
a higher-ranked Grey X of Minneapolis. Defending-champs Miami
Refugees dropped a game to the Keg Workers from Seattle. In
the other pool KAVU from Ketchum, ID was the lone undefeated
team as they knocked off last-year-finalists Old and In the
Way from Boulder.
The
battle is raging in Sarasota as I write this. We'll have another
report for you on the weekend.
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